From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261911AbVAaEMv (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:12:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261912AbVAaEMv (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:12:51 -0500 Received: from cantva.canterbury.ac.nz ([132.181.2.27]:35083 "EHLO cantva.canterbury.ac.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261911AbVAaEMu (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:12:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:12:47 +1300 From: ych43 Subject: adding process data to file descriptor structure in Linux To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <41F3DE9D@webmail> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-WebMail-UserID: ych43 X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002797 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, If it is possible to add some process data to a file descriptor structure in Linux? So the file descriptor could either save a list of proc pointers or a list of PID values. It this list could be made, then sockets could be easily identified using process control block hash table. Does anybody know if it is possible? thanks